How to format your references using the Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy. For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Find the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

¹ D. Goldston, “America’s new leadership,” Nature 456(7218), 16 (2008).

A journal article with 2 authors

¹ S. Bengtson, and G. Budd, “Comment on ‘Small bilaterian fossils from 40 to 55 million years before the Cambrian,’” Science 306(5700), 1291; author reply 1291 (2004).

A journal article with 3 authors

¹ J. Miake, E. Marbán, and H.B. Nuss, “Biological pacemaker created by gene transfer,” Nature 419(6903), 132–133 (2002).

A journal article with 4 or more authors

¹ V.H. Brun, M.K. Otnass, S. Molden, H.-A. Steffenach, M.P. Witter, M.-B. Moser, and E.I. Moser, “Place cells and place recognition maintained by direct entorhinal-hippocampal circuitry,” Science 296(5576), 2243–2246 (2002).

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

¹ X.S. Lin, Introductory Stochastic Analysis for Finance and Insurance: Lin/Introductory (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2006).

An edited book

¹ M.B. Pitman, The Papanicolaou Society of Cytopathology System for Reporting Pancreaticobiliary Cytology: Definitions, Criteria and Explanatory Notes (Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2015).

A chapter in an edited book

¹ R. Palivonaite, A. Fedaravicius, A. Aleksa, and M. Ragulskis, “Near-Optimal Moire Grating for Chaotic Dynamic Visual Cryptography,” in Advances in Visual Informatics: Third International Visual Informatics Conference, IVIC 2013, Selangor, Malaysia, November 13-15, 2013. Proceedings, edited by H.B. Zaman, P. Robinson, P. Olivier, T.K. Shih, and S. Velastin, (Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2013), pp. 48–58.

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy.

Blog post

¹ R. Andrews, “San Andreas Fault Is ‘Locked, Loaded And Ready To Go,’ Says Leading Seismologist,” IFLScience, (2016).

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

¹ Government Accountability Office, Information on Prime Sponsor CETA Expenditures Related to Membership Organizations (U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1981).

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

¹ J.T. Brown, Evaluation of a Social Science Simulation by Uncertainty Analysis and Comparison, Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University, 2010.

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

¹ J. Gorman, “Dance Moves Only for Males,” New York Times, D5 (2017).

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

This sentence cites one reference ¹.
This sentence cites two references ^1,2.
This sentence cites four references ^1–4.

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy
Abbreviation	J. Renew. Sustain. Energy
ISSN (online)	1941-7012
Scope	Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment